(Source: The University of Sheffield)
Via Law
& Humanities Blog, we learned of a call for papers for a conference on “Law,
Literature and Psychoanalysis, 1890-1950”. Here the call:
Keynotes:
Ravit Reichman
(Brown University)
Lizzie Seal
(University of Sussex)
Victoria Stewart
(University of Leicester)
Call For Papers:
The
twentieth-century was a period of worldwide literary experiment, of scientific
developments and of worldwide conflict. These changes demanded a rethinking not
merely of psychological subjectivity, but also of what it meant to be subject
to the law and to punishment. This two-day conference aims to explore
relationships between literature, law and psychoanalysis during the period
1890-1950, allowing productive mixing of canonical and popular literature and
also encouraging interdisciplinary conversations between different fields of
study.
The period
examined by the conference included: developments in Freudian psychoanalysis
and its branching in other directions; the founding of criminology; continuing
campaigns and reforms around the death penalty; landmark modernist
publications; the ‘Golden Age’ of detective fiction; and multiple sensational
trials (Wilde, Crippen, Casement, Leopold and Loeb, to name but a few). Freud’s
followers, like Theodor Reik and Hans Sachs, would publish work on criminal law
and the death penalty; psychoanalysts were sought after as expert witnesses;
novelists like Elizabeth Bowen would serve on a Royal Commission investigating
capital punishment; while Gladys Mitchell invented the character of Beatrice
Adela Lestrange Bradley as a literary detective-psychoanalyst.
We therefore
hope to consider areas including literature’s connection with historical
debates around crime and punishment; literature and authors on trial and/or on
the ‘psychiatrist's couch’; and literature’s effect on debates about human
rights. The event is linked to and partly supported by an AHRC project on
literature, psychoanalysis and the death penalty, but the aim of this
conference is much wider. Interdisciplinary approaches, especially from fields
such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, law or the visual arts, are particularly
encouraged. We also welcome papers on international legal systems and texts.
All responses are welcome and the scope of our interdisciplinary interests is
flexible, with room in the planned programme for strands of work that might be
more or less literary.
Possible topics might include:
- psychoanalysis in the real or
literary courtroom;
- literary form and the insanity
defence;
- canonical authors as readers of
crime fiction and vice versa;
- censorship
cases;
- the influence of famous legal
cases on literary productions or on psychoanalytic theory;
- influences of criminology and
criminal psychology on literature;
- representations of new execution
methods (for example, the gas chamber and the electric chair);
- portrayals of
restorative versus retributive justice;
- literary responses to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
- relationships between modernism
and Critical Legal Studies (CLS).
Please send 250 word paper proposals or 300 word proposals for fully formed panels to Katherine Ebury litlawpsy2019@gmail.com by 28th November 2018.
(Source: Law
& Humanities Blog)
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